[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Leviticus Overview]] [[Leviticus 21]] [[Leviticus 23]] # Leviticus 22 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses: [[#Verse 02.]] “Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 03.]] Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings, which the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 04.]] No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or with a man who has a seminal emission,  [[#Verse 05.]] or with a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or who touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity—  [[#Verse 06.]] the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.  [[#Verse 07.]] When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food. [[#Verse 08.]] He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 09.]] They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them. [[#Verse 10.]] “‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,  [[#Verse 11.]] but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.  [[#Verse 12.]] If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,  [[#Verse 13.]] but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it. [[#Verse 14.]] “‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one-fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.  [[#Verse 15.]] They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord,  [[#Verse 16.]] and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’” ### Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings [[#Verse 17.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 18.]] “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings, which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering,  [[#Verse 19.]] if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats. [[#Verse 20.]] You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.  [[#Verse 21.]] If a man presents a peace-offering sacrifice to the Lord for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw. [[#Verse 22.]] “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord.  [[#Verse 23.]] As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.  [[#Verse 24.]] You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.  [[#Verse 25.]] Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’” [[#Verse 26.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 27.]] “When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the Lord.  [[#Verse 28.]] You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.  [[#Verse 29.]] When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit.  [[#Verse 30.]] On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the Lord. [[#Verse 31.]] “You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 32.]] You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,  [[#Verse 33.]] the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes